Is Canada's Government Funding Terrorism?

"Members of Parliament of the Government of Canada are using their official positions to channel taxpayers' money to Islamic Relief Canada (IRC). The IRC is a federally registered charity, so the taxpayer is subsidizing this activity. IRC in turn is sending millions of dollars to Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). Seven independent and reliable sources have gone on the public record and stated that IRW uses charitable funds to provide material support to terrorism. In most cases, this means Hamas, an organization which is listed as a terrorist entity by the Government of Canada." — From of a letter sent to Brenda Lucki, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Funding terrorism is a criminal act according the Criminal Code of Canada.

It is imperative that the RCMP look into this matter of national and international security, and that the Trudeau government be held accountable.

Canadian taxpayers have unwittingly been funding terrorism for more than two decades, often through federally registered charities, many of which have since been banned in other countries and subsequently by Ottawa as well. The International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy, which has sent tens of millions of dollars in goods and services to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, is one example. Another is the Islamic Society of North America's Development Foundation, which was discovered to be funding the Pakistani Islamist movement Jamaat-e-Islami. A third was Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's "Jihad Fund," which was operating in Canada through a charity registered as the World Islamic Call Society.

For the past three years, however, since the election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, there has been a shift in the way in which Canadian money is being funneled to terrorist groups. Whereas prior to 2015, the individuals responsible for terrorism-funding were not members of the government or parliament, current evidence suggests that acting politicians are involved in directing money down a path where the ultimate destination is a listed terrorist group. The money is being funneled through a variety of government organizations and programs, including the International Humanitarian Aid Program (2017), M103 Islamophobia Funding (2018), Canada Summer Jobs Program (2017 and 2018), Myanmar Crisis Relief Fund/Islamic Relief (May 2018), Canadian Humanitarian Assistance Fund (CHAF), Canada's Humanitarian and Development Assistance to Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, and Prime Minister Trudeau's volunteer work and promotional video for Islamic Relief Canada.

Since, if true, this would be a violation of Section 83.18 and Section 83.03 of the Criminal Code of Canada -- and an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is required to determine the legality of the government of Canada funding a known Islamist front group -- I sent a letter to Brenda Lucki, Commissioner of the RCMP, demanding a criminal investigation into Trudeau, Minister of Global Affairs Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen, Minister for International Development Marie Claude Bibeau, Parliamentary Secretary for Global Affairs Omar Alghabra, and MP for Mississauga-Erin Mills Iqra Khalid.

The October 9 letter -- co-signed by Tahir Gora of the Canadian Thinkers Forum and TAG-TV, Raheel Raza and Sohail Raza of Muslims Facing Tomorrow and Benjamin Dichter -- reads as follows:

Dear Commissioner Lucki,

This is a formal statement of complaint and I am willing to testify in court to the material contained in this report. The first twenty pages of this document contains the complaint itself and the direct relevant information. The remainder of the document contains supporting, explanatory or supplementary information.

The complaint is that Members of Parliament of the Government of Canada are using their official positions to channel taxpayers' money to Islamic Relief Canada (IRC). The IRC is a federally registered charity, so the taxpayer is subsidizing this activity. IRC in turn is sending millions of dollars to Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). Seven independent and reliable sources have gone on the public record and stated that IRW uses charitable funds to provide material support to terrorism. In most cases, this means Hamas, an organization which is listed as a terrorist entity by the Government of Canada.

Funding terrorism is a criminal act according the Criminal Code of Canada.

I am a court expert in terrorism in both the Federal and criminal courts. I have spent years working in the military and intelligence communities, including several years spent at the RCMP (A-INSET). I was working for the RCMP in a national security intelligence role during the Momin Khawaja investigation when I was first qualified as a court expert. At other times, I have worked for the Canadian Armed Forces, the Privy Council Office (Intelligence Assessment Secretariat) and I have been a Senior Fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Military service overseas involved time spent in Croatia and Bosnia during the Yugoslav War.

As you will note, all the sources of information here are public...

Included in the source material we presented to Commissioner Lucki is the following list of those countries raising concerns about terrorism-funding:

In 2014, Israel banned Islamic Relief from operating in the West Bank, accusing Islamic Relief Worldwide of being a source of funding for the Palestinian Hamas Islamist movement.

In 2015, the HSBC Bank of the United Kingdom ended its banking links with Islamic Relief, citing fears the aid could wind up with terrorist groups. This became public in 2016 when the Times of London published an article titled "Terror fear makes HSBC cut ties to Muslim charity."

The Financial Post of Canada had listed Islamic Relief Canada on their "charities of the year" list but removed it in 2014, stating that IRC was pulled "since its international arm has been banned elsewhere (though not in Canada) for allegedly funneling funds to the terrorist organization Hamas."

It is imperative that the RCMP look into this matter of national and international security, and that the Trudeau government be held accountable.

Tom Quiggin is a former military intelligence officer, a former intelligence contractor for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a court appointed expert on jihadist terrorism in both the Federal and criminal courts of Canada. He is the author of SUBMISSION: The Danger of Political Islam to Canada – With a Warning to America, written with co-authors Tahir Gora, Saied Shoaaib, Jonathon Cotler, and Rick Gill with a foreword by Raheel Raza. He is also the primary contributor to the QUIGGIN REPORT podcast.

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11 Reader Comments

Amy • Oct 30, 2018 at 17:31

Oh Canada...where are you headed?

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Henry • Oct 29, 2018 at 21:21

RCMP will not start the investigation. In Canada, MMS, police, courts, all human rights organizations are under control of the leftist government and there is no viable public force to resist the violation of law by the government. Trudeau's government has knowingly broken the law multiple times and nothing has been done to address it. Canadian democracy is dying and people are silent. The only chance, probably the last one, is the next year federal elections.

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Darren • Oct 29, 2018 at 15:42

We need to start something in Canada, some kind of mass awareness. This is getting totally out of hand. The leftist insanity is unbelievable.

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diane moore • Oct 29, 2018 at 13:55

Years ago we had in Quebec an organisation called "L'Accueil Bonneau" helping with homeless and other citizens who have found themselves in difficulties due to "chomage" drugs..etc.. It had to be closed down because of lack of subsidies and local support. Do we not have enough of our own people in Canada who might just need our charity and help? Now in the UK, "Islamic Relief" is also known to be financing terrorism.

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Bisley • Oct 29, 2018 at 13:25

Governments throughout the world are funding terrorists, along with every other sort of political, religious and criminal organization imaginable -- and it all needs to stop. Government is not a charitable organization, and should restrict its actions (and spending) to the legitimate functions of government -- and not be handing out public money to any sort of NGO, or supposed charitable organization, for any reason (whether, or not they know where the money is going).

Charity is (or should be) a personal choice. If people want to give their money to support some religious, charitable, environmental, or terrorist organization, it's their money, and it should be their choice as to what (if any) organizations they support. People in government love this practice, since it allows them to fund their political supporters, and pay off those who help them, by directing government grants and contracts to certain NGOs and charities -- it all needs to be stopped.

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David • Oct 29, 2018 at 13:12

Trudeau is Canada's Obama, brought in to slowly destroy the country and bring it into a globalist system of governance. Soros was one of the first people Trudeau met upon being elected. Sadly, Canadians like to think of themselves as nicer people than Americans, but sadly they don't have the gene for freedom that the Americans have, and I fear we re being set up for a UN style takeover with the Smart Cities initiative and the influx of terrorist fighters being prepositioned here.

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Norbert Kausen • Oct 29, 2018 at 12:33

Yes the Trudeau government IS breaking its own criminal laws with regard to terrorism, with its regard to Canadians fighting for foreign entities as well as breaking its own immigration laws! It is illegal to fund terrorist organizations or organizations which fund terrorist activities. It is illegal for government to bring back terrorists without prosecuting them for acts of terrorism, fighting for foreign entities, who are enemies of Canada and Canada's allies AND for breaking human rights laws! Trudeau has openly stated that ISIS fighters can contribute to Canadian dialogue, which is absolutely dangerously delusional! We have had terrorist acts perpetrated in Canada since Trudeau's criminally vile acts of bringing unvetted people into Canada. He had claimed he would accept responsibility for these terrorists and illegal aliens, yet refuses to acknowledge terrorist act perpetrated on his watch! THAT is not only unacceptable, but criminal in its totality! Trudeau has committed treason against Canada, he has committed malfeasance and he MUST be held to account, by Canadians!

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carol owen • Oct 29, 2018 at 12:30

Canada has a childlike ex-actor for president.He is tutored and bows low to the Muslim Brotherhood, the globalists ie Soros and he flies out to his puppeteers in the United Nations weekly.This actor is a puppet, uneducated pretty faced a thick man with bottomless pockets for handouts from his masters. He has sold his people to those who hold the money, he is a traitor to the Canadian people!Justine Trudeau will see his family name go down in flames, and if the people rise, he and many like him in the west will go up in flames

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Dean • Oct 29, 2018 at 10:36

Not only has Canada pro-actively made free speech an impossibility (with their state broadcasters help) when it comes to speaking truth to jihad in Canada through implementation of Islamophobia motion M-103, but now Trudeau is actively seeking to defer Canada's sovereignty and immigration policy to the "U.N. Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration."

Trudeau has been looking to destroy Canada's borders by flooding them with unknown groups and individuals with unknown reasons for wanting to be in Canada, but he is also trying to protect himself from any responsibility and accountability by hiding behind his global friends and specifically the man he consulted with about open borders, George Soros. As the fruits of his globalism and leftist come to fruition in the form of terrorism, shootings and stealthier forms of jihad, Canadians, used to quiet and woefully uninformed, remain silent and unaware.

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Micky Earnshaw Dean • Oct 29, 2018 at 13:35

Not to mention the $10.5 million dollar reward Trudeau paid (your Canadian tax dollars at work) to convicted Islamic terrorist-murderer Omar Khadr. Oh yes, and an apology on top of that (I almost forgot). Trudeau's support of Islamic terrorism seems to go unnoticed by Canadians.

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Paul Dunn Micky Earnshaw • Oct 30, 2018 at 06:32

Resign Trudeau...Please. You were never ready for this important job as Leader..

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